Coney Island’s Luna Park Amusement Park Opens

Luna Park opens for the season on Coney Island on March , 2016. (Credit: Juliet Papa/1010 WINS)

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — The sun may have been hiding behind clouds, but people didn’t let that put a damper on their day in Brooklyn as Coney’s Island Luna Park opened Friday for the season.

An opening day ceremony will be held Saturday, when the first 100 guests will get to ride the historic Cyclone roller coaster for free. The park will also be open Easter Sunday from noon to 11 p.m.

Luna Park will be open on weekends and school holidays until Memorial Day weekend, when it opens daily for the summer.

Tricia Sassaye from Marlboro is returning to her Brooklyn roots at the park. She considers herself a roller coaster junkie, so she had no problem handling the Thunderbolt’s 12-story plunge at a 90-degree angle straight down, WCBS 880’s Stephanie Colombini reported. Her niece, Claire Meso, wasn’t so brave. She screamed the whole way down.